Josh Brolin should get some kind of award for the choices he and his agent have made in the past year.
First, he's in Grindhouse (both of the segments, as I recall), which was pretty well received, if not so profitable.
Then, in the fall of this year, he's in three legit contenders for best picture.

In the Valley of Elah
American Gangster
No Country for ( Read more... )

So...I just found out that I don't have a place to stay in Harrisonburg after all.  No big deal.  The room is being used, that's understandable.

I really want to go down there, though.  Not because of some silly football game, but because there are people I need to see.  I don't need to see them.  I'm not Arkady Svidrigailov.  I'm not going to send ( Read more... )

Last night I watched a documentary about the current Iraq war  called No End In Sight.  I hadn't really formulated a clear opinion on the war until seeing this film.  I'm not going to be one of those guys who says it changed my life.  You know, like how some people did after seeing Fahrenheit 9/11?  (I'm not implicating anybody specifically, just a ( Read more... )

My grandmother visited this weekend.  She's about as hard-line republican as anybody can get, except for her stance on abortion, which is not pro life.  We've never really agreed on anything politically since I've been a sentient adult (as opposed to a prattling robot of a child), but when we talked for the whole of Friday afternoon, anxiously ( Read more... )

Blackwater seems like kind of a blessing in disguise.  They can do the dirty work that comes with fighting a war against a faceless combatant, the stuff we don't want are troops to do.  And then, when they do those bad, horrible things, we can villify them.

That's a win win win, right?

A Swedish cartoonist depicted Muhammed as a dog.  He said he was ( Read more... )

- I've been wondering recently why Helen Mirrer isn't on any of those top 100 hottest women lists.  She's clearly more beautiful than 90% of the women in those magazines, yet she is ignored.  Is this because she's 62?  I honestly can't think of many women who have gotten better looking as they've gotten older.  And I only mention this because I ( Read more... )

"If mother's ruled the world, there wouldn't be any god-damned war!"
-Sally Field

1. Boudica
2. Catherine the Great
3. Queen Victoria
4. Isabella II of Spain
5. Indira Gandhi
6. Golda Meir

These six great women throughout the span of history have been rulers, mothers...warriors and heroes.
Is handing the world over to mothers really the answer?  Every ( Read more... )

First off...I'm not going to predict any of the mini-series categories primarily because I haven't seen them and there aren't any sure things, like Helen Mirren last year.  Sorry, all you miniseries lovers, but I just don't care.  Go cry over there in the corner with the Tim Burton fanatics I hate.

Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
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Alright, Emmys Pt 2.  Second verse, same as the first.

An Emmy simile for you.
Sometimes I feel like I'm Louis van Amstel, choreographer of Dancing with the Stars Episode 303a.  He was up for outstanding choreography, against Wade Robson & Mia Michaels (So You Think You Can Dance) and the team of John DeLuca and Rob Marshall (Tony Bennett: An ( Read more... )

As Jemaine from Flight of the Conchords might say, it's business time.  I'm going to be predicting the Emmy results in this post.  The title probably gave it away, didn't it?  Yeah.

So, like the Golden Globes, I'll post my prediction and my opinion.  Sometimes they'll be the same, but I'm going to take some special consideration for different shows ( Read more... )